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With all the speculation about AI eliminating entry-level jobs, it is no wonder young South Africans are anxious about launching their careers. This anxiety is entirely understandable. According to the latest Quarterly Labour Force Survey from Statistics South Africa, the official unemployment rate stood at 31.4% in the fourth quarter of 2025, with 7.8 million […]
Affordable smartphones, flexible credit and a women-led sales network are reshaping digital inclusion in South Africa.
Rural electrification is lighting up the Earth at night. But war, blackouts and energy policy are darkening some regions.
As the Artemis II astronauts return from the moon, we celebrate the science, suits and spirit of endeavour that took them there, all brought together in a colourful new book called Space Journal
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The US is set to approve rule revisions this month to ease power limits on satellite spectrum use.
Improved short-term forecasts could be a lifesaver for Nasa and important for organisers of events such as Wimbledon
Meteorologists are working on ever longer-range predictions, but they have not neglected ultra local, ultra short-term forecasts for specific purposes.
This month, meteorologists at Nasa’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia announced trials with a high-resolution weather...
This week Artemis II’s four-astronaut crew broke Apollo 13’s distance record, becoming the humans to travel the farthest from Earth. Now on their way home, the team has experienced tech malfunctions, views like no other and moments of intense emotion, all in under 10 days. To find out about all the highs and lows of the mission, Madeleine Finlay hears from the Guardian’s science editor,...
The ruling was a setback for the artificial intelligence start-up in its battle with the Defense Department over the use of A.I. in warfare.
Data on almost 28,000 patients suggests understanding gene variations could improve treatments for obesity
Scientists have discovered how genetics may help explain why weight-loss jabs work better for some people than others.
Variations in two genes involved in gut hormone pathways, which regulate appetite and digestion, may help account for different weight-loss results or side-effects when...
The model, Muse Spark, performed better than Meta’s previous A.I. models but lags rivals on coding ability.
As Artemis II returns from the dark side of the moon, Nasa’s transformations of electromagnetic energy into sound remind us that everything is vibrating – even while the astronauts are listening to Chappell Roan
Jaw-dropping dark-siding exploration aside, it’s the mundane details of the Artemis II mission that connect us with the four astronauts slingshotting their way around the moon and...
Amendments to the Electronic Communications Amendment Act have a narrow focus on key provisions requiring urgent action.
As real astronauts vanish behind the moon, games have long tried to evoke the fragile quiet of drifting through space
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Last week’s launch of the Artemis II space mission was a stunning spectacle, the 17-storey-high rockets erupting into cacophonous life before wrenching the craft through the Earth’s atmosphere. But the images...
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The British computer scientist and entrepreneur has denied being the man who the New York Times identified at Satoshi Nakamoto.
Exclusive: Former UN climate chief to co-chair Lancet Commission examining how sea-level rise is reshaping health, wellbeing and inequality
Countries are being “held hostage” by their reliance on fossil fuels, a former UN climate chief has warned, describing the health impacts of climate change as “the mother of all injustices”.
Christiana Figueres, an international climate negotiator who...
The company said on Tuesday that it was holding back on releasing the new technology but was working with 40 companies to explore how it could prevent cyberattacks.
The threat posed by a new space race is real. But so is the wonder of humankind’s reaching for the skies
“Everything we need, Earth provides. And that is somewhat of a miracle, and one that you can’t truly know until you’ve had the perspective of the other.” This is how the US astronaut Christina Koch summed up her experience of travelling to the far side of the moon on Monday. The...
Child psychiatrist who brought obsessive-compulsive disorder to public awareness and focused on the brain’s biology and its role in mental illness
The child psychiatrist Judith Rapoport, who has died aged 92, is credited with bringing obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) to public awareness. Her book The Boy Who Couldn’t Stop Washing (1989), which was translated into more than 20 languages and...
The former employee was fired from Meta after being suspected of downloading 30,000 photos, the company said.
Nasa astronauts begin journey home having collected eagerly awaited photographs of impact craters and ridges
Nasa’s Artemis II astronauts have described the powerful emotion felt when soaring over the moon as they photographed impact craters, cracks and ridges and began their long journey home.
Among the eagerly awaited images captured by the crew, who worked in pairs at the Orion capsule...